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On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:08:20PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> And Rosta scripsit:
> > 1. substance
> > 2. prototype.
> > 3. unique.
Unique still makes no sense to me.
> I think this is exactly the Right Thing in every respect, and
> with the addition of 4. individual(s), should form our new gadri
> system. I do think however that the term "unique" is bad, because
> it suggests that there is literally, rather than notionally, only
> one of the thing. Whereas in fact what I take to be going on is
> a sort of superposition of the actual things (birds, Superbowl games, etc.)
Wait a minute. What's the "new gadri system". I don't think we
can or should abandon the current system. Any clarifcations which
are made should be just that---we can't and shouldn't change things
so that "loi djacu" is meaningless and no longer means bare "water"
or whatever crap xod was pushing.
> We can talk of "the LLG meeting" using this form, because it is an annual
> recurrence of the same thing.
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